Website Maintenance

We like to think of website maintenance in the same way as changing the oil in your car. You can get away without it for a little while, but eventually bigger and more costly problems will occur if the regular maintenance isn’t done. It’s important to maintain your website as you would with any other important asset, like a car or house. Also, malware attacks on sites with older versions of plugins and content management systems are becoming increasingly common, so security is an essential part of our regular maintenance work. We offer plans for all budgets and websites, so whether you need a “reliable sedan” or a “fancy sportscar” we have you covered!

I am constantly amazed by Watermelons ability to find creative solutions to our complex website needs. Their entire team is professional, smart, thorough and a pleasure to deal with.

-Mike S, Skutt

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What is Website Maintenance, Exactly?

When organizations implement an active, preventative website maintenance strategy, their entire digital workflow wins. At its foundation, effective system maintenance involves keeping core server software up to date with critical stability patches, security vulnerability releases, database cleanup scripts, and dependency management. Once those basic updates are successfully executed, our specialized development team analyzes individual frontend components, evaluating page speed bottlenecks, crawlability parameters, search visibility configurations, and conversion funnel architecture. From this comprehensive telemetry, we isolate your distinct Golden Metric—the primary performance indicator that validates whether your digital application is actively fulfilling its business purpose. Typical configurations of this core baseline include tracking secure contact forms completed, e-commerce checkout frequencies, monthly digital revenue generation, or unique user traffic behavior trends.

WordPress / Magento Maintenance Plans

Our senior development team has extensive experience engineering and optimizing complex open-source infrastructure. We build specialized code support packages designed explicitly for high-traffic environments, offering targeted content management systems support that protects backend database integrity while optimizing client administration workflows.

Magento Infrastructure Support & WordPress Security Maintenance

Beyond our primary core setups, we provide comprehensive, long-term technical support for an array of specialized, custom PHP and MySQL web applications. Our centralized web development help desk is active and monitored throughout standard operational hours, ensuring that routine, non-critical database adjustments or theme updates are fully verified and deployed within a standard 48-hour window. For critical server emergencies, configuration drops, or active security mitigation requests, our specialized engineering desk stays online 24/7/365 to maintain operational continuity.

More on the Golden Metric

Within our structured WordPress environments and advanced Magento applications, every individual evaluation cycle is modified to protect your specific digital goals. For instance, an enterprise corporate application may prioritize isolating unique traffic loops or monitoring search visibility dips within an isolated service vertical. Conversely, a large non-profit organization requires rigorous validation of digital donation processing portals, server compliance protocols, and form security across strategic high-traffic landing pages. While every modern web architecture must load rapidly, display clean conversion loops, and deliver a frictionless interface, technical maintenance parameters vary depending on operational requirements. Our service plans are built to remain inherently flexible, matching the technical demands of multiple scaling companies and global organizations.

If you are managing an outdated site version, resolving plugin compatibility errors, or want to outline a proactive protection roadmap for your application, please reach out to our team. We are available to evaluate your site health metrics and guide you toward a sustainable configuration.

We also provide:

Web Design

Web Design combines aesthetics and functionality into one beautiful package. We make your website look amazing on large and small screens, all while keeping it easy to use and navigate.

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Web Development

Web Development involves taking a static design and turning it into a living, working website. We know the right platforms and technologies to use to build your website the right way.

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SEO

“Build it and they will come” isn’t a great marketing strategy. We ensure that your content is optimized for search engines. We’ll be sure to bring Google to your website.

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Website Hosting

A website needs somewhere to live, and your web host has a big impact on how well your site functions. Our hosting servers are reserved only for our clients, and boast fast connection speeds and 99.9% uptime.

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Judge Academy: All In One Integrated WordPress Site for Magic the Gathering Judges

Judge Academy serves as an important resource for judges of the immensely popular strategy card game Magic the Gathering. The centerpiece of the site is a series of LearnDash-based courses where current and aspiring Judges can enhance their knowledge-base and progress up to more responsibilities within the community. The courseware is integrated with a multi-language plugin to make it accessible to Judges all around the world.

Furthermore, the site allows judges to create tournaments and assign duties based on the skill level attained through the site’s courseware. These events are directly integrated into forums, where judges can discuss the events (as well as any other related topic) with collaborators and teammates.

This site is ever-evolving and growing.

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Ready to get started? When you fill out this form, we will review your project requirements to see if we’d be a good fit. Whether or not we decide to work together, you’ll always receive a prompt response.

If we both decide it’s a good match, that’s great! The next step will be to get on a call with our team to discuss the finer details of your project. We will take that information and distill it down into a detailed, line-item estimate that shows the exact time, cost, and technology required to complete your project.

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What Our Clients Say

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OMS Anita
2 years ago
Watermelon Web Works has been incredible to work with. They are patient, understanding, and quick to answer any questions (or emergencies) you might have. After switching over to them to help re-vamp our online retail store, we hired them to build our wholesale website as well. I can't recommend them enough - Thank you team!
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Garrett Lister
2 years ago
Jared and the watermelon team were great - they quickly interpreted our website needs and designed a wonderful site. The project management site worked great to keep track of project.
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N B
3 years ago
My previous web developer who I was very happy with retired and I was pretty sad about it because it seems now days it is hard to hire a web developer close by with a good set of skills who is interested in helping small business at reasonable prices. Then I found Watermelon and I have been very happy. They are responsive, are able to solve problems, and work at reasonable prices.
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Dark Star Magick
3 years ago
We hired Watermelon to help us with our website. They were very thorough and took the time to explain in layman's terms what they were doing and how we could improve SEO and site functionality. We will definitely be back for future website needs!
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Astoria Column
3 years ago
Great work and amazing service! We're a non-profit, and our priorities are always focused on maintaining the Astoria Column. We had a website built by someone else a few years ago, but without regular updating and maintenance, sections of our site were no longer functional. Joanna and the rest of the team came in and had everything working within a week and it's been smooth sailing since then!
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Ben Harris
7 years ago
Watermelon has been a fantastic web development partner. Through every phase of our project they have always been 100% responsive to our requests and have always provided highly knowledgeable, creative, prompt, and personable team members to work with. As a financial institution we’re always concerned about the security and maintenance or our website and Watermelon has always provided the appropriate resources in order to meet and/or exceed our compliance and security requirements. We would surely refer them to any business associates looking for a qualified WordPress web designer in the future. – Denali Federal Credit Union
Watermelon Web Works did a great job creating a custom shopping cart page for our firm. Gavynn in particular was especially helpful and responsive. We appreciated the upfront costs and the technical competency of Watermelon Web Works and would not hesitate to work with the people there again.
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Kim Markle
7 years ago
Our company has been working with the Watermelon team for more than 10 years to help build and grow our website and customer portal. They are not only extremely talented and responsive, but are continuously looking for ways for us to enhance our current website. They are consistent, provide excellent customer service and really know what they are doing. Highly recommend!
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Rick Brodner
9 years ago
I cannot say enough good things about Watermelon. They are terrific communicators, highly competent coders, and really, really nice people. They were instrumental in helping us to assemble a very usable, easily maintainable website for our organization. They' have demonstrated great flexibility in accommodating our evolving needs. They have been highly responsive to any technical issues, typically resolving them in less than 4 hours. Watermelon Web Works will make your organization better, and your CFO/Treasurer will be happy when they see the bill - what more can you ask for?